Word: oversaw
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dorking, England, south of * London. A leading British film actor who first won fame as the titular hammer- throwing phenom in 1955's Wee Geordie, Travers is best known in this country for Born Free (1966), in which he played George Adamson, the real-life game warden who oversaw the raising of Elsa the famous lioness...
Clemens E. Benda, who was a faculty member at the Medical School until at least 1964, served as the medical director at the school for the retarded and oversaw the experiments, according to Benda's published study and Medical School records...
...work, deftly and energetically editing copy -- not only in TIME's Business section but also in science and in world affairs, beats she specifically requested. Says Morrison: "If this was going to be a learning experience, I figured I should deal with breaking news." During her brief tenure she oversaw cover stories on such varied topics as the impending collapse of Castro's Cuba, human cloning and America's job crisis. Her most recent big assignment was especially apt: a cover story on the new generation of leaders at the Big Three Detroit automakers. And she made it all look...
Harvard has a special responsibility to campaign against nuclear weapons, Forrow says. He cites former Harvard President James B. Conant '13, who acted as science adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and oversaw the construction and deployment of the atomic bomb during World...
...Macy's department-store maintenance engineer who has had his finger in more than one American intelligence pie. In 1983 Kattke helped Oliver North prepare the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada. He was also on hand in Haiti in 1986 when Baby Doc Duvalier was ousted. (Raymond Burghardt, who oversaw Latin American affairs for the National Security Council at the time, credits Kattke with "knowing that Baby Doc would be toppled before the U.S. embassy...